Razor-guard.



W. L. KING.

RAZOR GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1913. 1,081,123.

Patented Dec. 9,1913.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNITED streams PATENT onnion- WINFIELD Ii. KING, OF INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAZOR-GUARD.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVINFIELD L. KING, a citizen of the United States, and a residentof Indiana, in the county of Indiana and Eitate of Pennsylvania, have invented. a new and Improved Razor-Guard, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a guard attachment for the blades of ordinary razors, and particularly to an attachment comprising a clamp and a swinging guard.

It is a design of my invention to provide a guard attachment of the indicated character that will effectively guard the cutting edge of the razor against accidentally cutting the face of the user, and to so arrange the clamp element and the guard, that the latter will exert a pressure against the clamp to bind the same against the razor blade.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved attachment, showing the same applied to a razor blade; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side; and Fig. 8 is a cross section on an enlarged scale.

In forming an attachment in accordance with my invention, a clamp is produced, consisting of jaws 10 and 11, there being preferably two jaws 10 lying at one side of the blade, and a single elongated jaw 11 at the opposite side and joined to the jaws 10 by U-bends 12 at the ends, that arch over the back of the razor blade A, when the device is applied.

The elongated jaw 11 has cars 13 near the ends, in which is pivoted the swinging guard 14, provided with teeth 14: adapted to be disposed with their ends adjacent to the cutting edge of the razor blade A. It is to be noted that the guard 14: is pivoted directly to the jaw 11, and not to a separate carrying member tor'the guard. The guard adj acent to the pivoted edge is bent at an angle, or flanged as at 1.42", and the said flange is Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 25, 1913.

Patented Dec. 59, 1913.

Serial No. 756,677.

adapted to exert pressure on the aw 11, for which purpose the said jaw is formed with studs 15, which may be located at such points on the jaw as will result in an efi ective pressure being exerted on the jaw by the bent flange 14, when the guard is turned on its pivot to a position against the razor blade, the edge of the flange riding onto the said sides and exerting a pressure thereon as the guard swings past its center.

The pressure of the flange 1 P presses the jaw 11 inwardly against the adjacent side of the razor blade; therefore the closing down of the clump of the guard to retain the guard against the razor blade, will result in increasing the clamping action of the jaws on the blade. On the other hand, when the guard is swung upward away from the blade, for instance to the position indicated by dotted lines in 2, the flange i l will be disengaged from the jaw 11 and pass out of contact with the studs or protuberances 15, relieving the said aw of pressure so that it will hold with less binding contact onto the razor blade.

The comparative loosening of the jaws in their grip on the blade results in less scratching or marring of the sides of the blade by the jaws when the attachment is removed or applied.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A guard attachment for razor blades, comprising a clamp presenting a pair of jaws adapted to embrace the opposite side faces of the razor blade, one of said jaws being laterally flexible to be flexed toward the opposite jaw for contracting the space between the jaws, and a guard pivoted to the clamp for swinging movement and having a member disposed adjacent to the flexible jaw, and movable upon the swinging of the guard into engagement with the flexible jaw to flex the same in the direction of the companion jaw of the pair.

2. A guard attachment for razors, co1nprising a clamp presenting at one side an elongated jaw and at the opposite side spaced jaws united to the elongated jaw near the ends oi the latter by ti -bends, and a swinging guard pivoted to the elongated jaw between the top and bottom of the lat- In testimony whereof I have signed my ter, the said guard having a flange at an name to this specification in the presence of angle thereto, and the elongated jaw having two subscribing witnesses. v protuberances against which said flange has WINFIELD L. KING.

5 frictional engagement to flex the aw later- Vitnesses:

ally and for pressing the same against the EARL E. DENISER, side of the razor blade. G. L. VAN VRANKEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,-

1 Washington, D. 0. 

